by After three days of debate, the Chamber of Deputies finally approved overall the filed Omnibus Law –Of 644 articles, 363 remained standing– but the most cumbersome thing is still missing: the debate on the articles in particular, which will only begin next Tuesday. During the weekend the Government needs polish the negotiationsespecially with governors, so as not to suffer key defeats on the premises.
The Casa Rosada celebrated through a statement in which – after the repeated grievances against the legislators, whom Javier Milei himself treated as “coimeros” and “useful idiots” – it praised the block heads. “Despite our differences, they have contributed to the law moving forward”points out the message and adds for Tuesday: “We hope to have the same greatness on the day of the vote on the law in particular.”
The President only tweeted an image of the voting board with his slogan: “Long live fucking freedom.”
Text is allowed by 144 votes in favorr of the blocks of La Libertad Avanza and allies; pro; We make the Federal Coalition –by Miguel Ángel Pichetto-; Federal Innovation –which responds to the governors of Salta, Río Negro, Misiones, Neuquén-, a Santa Cruz native and the three Tucumans of the Peronist president Osvaldo Jaldowho broke with Unión por la Patria at the time of signing the ruling.
Against it there were 109 rejections of Kircherism and the Left. But also of the radical declared in rebellion, Facundo Manes and its slope paul juliano; of the two socialists from Santa Fe; Delaware Margarita Stolbizer, the discola from cordoba natalia de la sotaand another Santa Cruz native.
The start of the third day of debate was not free of controversies unrelated to the project. the legislator Victoria Tolosa Paz (UP) denounced his peers from La Libertad Avanza, Maria Celeste Ponce and Lilia Lemoinefor retweeting a video where she is seen running under the title “they are going to run left-handed.”
“I didn’t say that you were going to run, I said that you were in good physical condition. Likewise, you should have been here, debating,” replied Lemoine, who also accused the legislators of the Left and Kirchnerism of “organizing” the incidents in the street. . .
“You Kirchnerists are not Peronists either… because Perón was not with the terrorists…And you are not from the right either, you are from the left,” he shot.
As in the previous days, the formal and public debate was the screen for private negotiations which took place in the office of the president of the House, Martin Menemwhere the Minister of the Interior also arrived in a hurry Guillermo Francos.
The discussion remains open regarding the chapter on privatizations and delegated powers. But the threat that, driven by the Cordobans of the We Make Federal Coalition, puts the ruling party in trouble has to do with the demand for the co-participation of the Country Tax.
It was the issue that opened the crack last Monday after Francos’ meeting with the governors at the CFI and the legislators condition their support for articles on the Executive’s commitment to unblocking that issue.
“It is an important step to vote in general due to the magnitude of it and logically that Emergency and Delegated Powers is one of the central points of the law that we are going to ratify,” said Miguel Angel Pichetto, who commands the bloc of 23 legislators We Make Coalition Federal, where there are more differences.
And he added in a chicane to Kirchnerism: “Let’s not tear our clothes for voting for emergencies and delegations when you voted for it before leaving for the Christmas party. They did the same with the governor of the province of Buenos Aires (Axel Kicillof) and no one said nothing with the 200% increase in the ARBA.”
The radical Karina Banfi expressed herself along a similar line: “Where were they when in 2019, Alberto Fernández, with the votes of Kirchnerism, obtained nine emergencies and automatically renewed them? I didn’t see a tantrum. With quarantine and locking us all up.”
Máximo Kirchner, for his part, took aim at the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo and stated: “They want to do anything, if we are going to talk about fiscal responsibility, I am going to read you something that the newspaper La Nación published that says ‘historical problem: the Argentina had only six years of fiscal surplus.’ When I pass? When Peronism ruled, not the liberals. That’s the truth.” CFK’s son also described the omnibus law as a “momentum.”
As soon as he finished, the libertarian from Salta, Emilia Orozco, answered: “It is my first speech in this room. I never imagined that the first words I was going to say were ‘I feel ashamed of others’. I have worked hard to get to this bench, because I understand that from here the true transformation is made.”
“And I am not anyone’s daughter, I come from very low“, he added to deepen his criticism. “And you know what? In the name of this entire venue… Please come back. No, he’s allergic to working.” And he continued: “They had to endure a very poor speech from the heir to the maximum corruption in this country.”
The head of the libertarian bloc staunchly defended Javier Milei and shot Alberto Fernández. “It has been 50 days since the President took office and he has found himself with 1000% inflation and they worry if NAFTA increases 30%, with 1000% they left us in four years while their president is sailing around Spain with the money that was “he worked hard,” he said.
Treatment continues on Tuesday.
The discussion will begin on Tuesday. The truth is that the first debate of a law by the Milei government is on its way to breaking records. Although there were long sessions, there is no record of so many intermediate quarters and with so many days in between. For Tuesday, when the session resumes, it will be six days Since he began debating the law.
The parliamentary specialist José Ángel Di Mauro points out as the most similar precedent to a session in 2001, during the government of Antonio De La Rúa, when the session began on November 27 and ended on November 29, although with shorter days and the discussion of different laws, not just one. , as in this case.
